Child Sex Ratio

The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised PM Modi's schemes appealing to people to adopt daughters as a symbol of pride, after taking charge as head of the country, which resulted in a "mass campaign" and "revolutionized the sex ratio".

According to Finance Ministry figures, during 2020-21 a total of 4,15,818 accounts were opened in Uttar Pradesh under Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana.

At a time when the centre has been promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" programme, sex ratio at birth data from 132 villages in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand revealed that no girl child was born in these areas in the last three months.

In Rajasthan - infamous for its skewed child sex ratio - a bride in a rare gesture rode a horse to mark a pre-wedding ritual and send out a message for gender equality.

A fervent desire for a son to look after his ancestral property has led to a 83-year-old man in Rajasthan's Karauli to enter into a second marriage with a woman who is just 30 years old.

Despite multiple campaigns over the years, the preference for sons is still strong among Indian parents, the Economic Survey tabled in parliament today says. "The Indian parents often continue to have children till they have the desired number of sons," says the Economic Survey 2017-18 drafted by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian and his te...

National Girl Child Day is observed every year on January 24 to celebrate the accomplishments of the girl children and bring to focus the issues of skewed sex ratio, female foeticide, child marriage, unequal treatment and gender disparities in India.

A four-year-old girl in Haryana's Sirsa district was tortured and her private parts burned earlier this month. The inured child did not get any medical help for at least ten days until the local child welfare authorities found out about the incident and took her to hospital.

Gurgaon: While the child sex ratio in Gurgaon has bettered in the past few years, it is still lagging far behind other districts in Haryana. The administration, serious about improving it further, has launched a special drive to check pre-natal sex determination and female infanticide. A reward of Rs 1 lakh has been announced by the Gurgaon adminis...

A radiologist and three others have been booked for allegedly conducting sex-determination tests at her clinic in south Delhi's Jangpura, police said. Delhi Police officials said they received information from officials in Haryana's Sonepat district about the clinic's staff conducting sex determination ultrasounds.

In 2015, the BJP chose the state of Haryana to launch its 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' scheme, with the intent of using education, health and women's development to expand the state's historically poor sex ratio. According to the state women and child department statistics, Haryana has registered a historic increase in state and district sex ratios i...

Internet search engines - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing - were ordered by the Supreme Court on Thursday to appoint internal expert body to remove advertisements on sex-determination tests barred by law. "You can't violate the laws of the country. You must become responsive to Indian law," the top court told the three companies on a public inte...

Chandigarh: Haryana, infamous for having skewed sex ratio, has a good news to share. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said that the state has achieved a sex ratio of 900 girls against 1000 boys in 2016. The Chief Minister, citing Civil Registration System (CRS) data, said that the ratio was much in contrast to the statistics of 2011 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the steps taken by Haryana towards improving the adverse sex ratio and called upon the people of the state to take a pledge in its golden jubilee year to protect the girl child.

The states were selected using a composite measure, including metrics such as incidence of COVID-19, child sex ratio, women getting married before 18 years, annual dropout ratio and women aged between 15 and 24 years using hygienic methods during the menstrual cycle.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah praised PM Modi's schemes appealing to people to adopt daughters as a symbol of pride, after taking charge as head of the country, which resulted in a "mass campaign" and "revolutionized the sex ratio".

According to Finance Ministry figures, during 2020-21 a total of 4,15,818 accounts were opened in Uttar Pradesh under Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana.

At a time when the centre has been promoting its "Beti Bachao Beti Padhao" programme, sex ratio at birth data from 132 villages in Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand revealed that no girl child was born in these areas in the last three months.

In Rajasthan - infamous for its skewed child sex ratio - a bride in a rare gesture rode a horse to mark a pre-wedding ritual and send out a message for gender equality.

A fervent desire for a son to look after his ancestral property has led to a 83-year-old man in Rajasthan's Karauli to enter into a second marriage with a woman who is just 30 years old.

Despite multiple campaigns over the years, the preference for sons is still strong among Indian parents, the Economic Survey tabled in parliament today says. "The Indian parents often continue to have children till they have the desired number of sons," says the Economic Survey 2017-18 drafted by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian and his te...

National Girl Child Day is observed every year on January 24 to celebrate the accomplishments of the girl children and bring to focus the issues of skewed sex ratio, female foeticide, child marriage, unequal treatment and gender disparities in India.

A four-year-old girl in Haryana's Sirsa district was tortured and her private parts burned earlier this month. The inured child did not get any medical help for at least ten days until the local child welfare authorities found out about the incident and took her to hospital.

Gurgaon: While the child sex ratio in Gurgaon has bettered in the past few years, it is still lagging far behind other districts in Haryana. The administration, serious about improving it further, has launched a special drive to check pre-natal sex determination and female infanticide. A reward of Rs 1 lakh has been announced by the Gurgaon adminis...

A radiologist and three others have been booked for allegedly conducting sex-determination tests at her clinic in south Delhi's Jangpura, police said. Delhi Police officials said they received information from officials in Haryana's Sonepat district about the clinic's staff conducting sex determination ultrasounds.

In 2015, the BJP chose the state of Haryana to launch its 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' scheme, with the intent of using education, health and women's development to expand the state's historically poor sex ratio. According to the state women and child department statistics, Haryana has registered a historic increase in state and district sex ratios i...

Internet search engines - Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing - were ordered by the Supreme Court on Thursday to appoint internal expert body to remove advertisements on sex-determination tests barred by law. "You can't violate the laws of the country. You must become responsive to Indian law," the top court told the three companies on a public inte...

Chandigarh: Haryana, infamous for having skewed sex ratio, has a good news to share. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday said that the state has achieved a sex ratio of 900 girls against 1000 boys in 2016. The Chief Minister, citing Civil Registration System (CRS) data, said that the ratio was much in contrast to the statistics of 2011 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday lauded the steps taken by Haryana towards improving the adverse sex ratio and called upon the people of the state to take a pledge in its golden jubilee year to protect the girl child.